Billionaires are *right there* if we need to unload on a problematic minority. No one ever needs to punch down

Necromantasy is the new killer genre

Honestly can’t wait to tell you about my new secret novella that isn’t announced yet

girls that’s just Tuesday under capitalism

Still trotting out this old favourite every #VelociraptorAwarenessDay.

Agreed. I also think “intelligent design” hilariously misunderstands design, and also intelligence. But the incuriosity is of course the point of the hierarchical system of control that birthed it

I love this kind of mimicry in evolution because it’s actually just a shitload of accidents that predators increasingly reacted to like “seems snakey” and then “too snakey” and then “shit is that a snake”

It actually is very much like learning how to draw a snake except not on purpose

Author’s Note on Techno-optimism I came up with the premise for this world before I knew what techno-optimism was, before I would have known to have opinions about it. I wanted to imagine how drones, which were primarily tools of war back then, could be used for something good. I largely bought into the idea that humanity could innovate our way out of the climate crisis with new advancements in technology — the core assumption of techno-optimism. Through my research as I built this world further, I came to understand that we already have all the technology we need to manage climate change justly, for everyone, while preserving the biodiversity that remains. The innovations of this book that can actually get us there, right now, are not the eponymous drones, but universal housing, indigenous land management, and food forests — simple, proven concepts that have been with us for thousands of years.

This is the note on techno-optimism that's included in the book. It's a good conversation to have, I've been on a whole journey with it. Writing this book was an enormous part of that journey.

Thank you so much for this @mynachang.bsky.social ! I had a lot of fun answering these questions and I hope you have fun reading them. Also to be clear the book is very *in conversation with* techno-optimism, which I personally find profoundly problematic at this time

its little face 😍

I don’t know about anyone else but like… some of us were really hoping to escape poverty and generational debt for a bit there

Honestly this photo is gorgeous

Hell yeah

Heyyyyy Bay Area folks! I'll be celebrating the launch of my book Muñeca at Pegasus Books, one of my favorite bookshops since I was a Cal student. I'd love to see a bunch of you there.

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I loooovvvee @tkrex.bsky.social and their collection and you should order it and read it if you can!

uhg

archosaur is good taxa

oh they definitely have a common ancestor about 280 million years ago

which is more recently than us

I feel like it was more common in the mid-late 20th century, or maybe it's regional, I almost never hear it in the Bay Area but it is familiar

Thanks!

tag yourself, I’m February 7

My book is at the printers and also @shingai-be-like.bsky.social wrote me the most beautiful blurb

gonna turn off the phone now and pretend like this is the only thing happening for the rest of the day 💖

@shingai-be-like.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

who could possibly have guessed

It's a little heartbreaking that Locus is down to the wire here. Locus is so important to the SFF community. If you can chip in, please do. @locusmag.bsky.social

It’s actually *so many* bones, I don’t know how you got it done that fast

Go chip in if you can. No other magazine covers the SF/fantasy field as thoroughly or knowledgeably as Locus does.

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